Police Corruption

MUNCIE — Federal authorities are investigating the Muncie Police Department, according the Chief Joe Winkle. The investigation is reportedly looking into alleged police brutality, however, Winkle said he has not been officially informed of what the investigation is looking at or if federal authorities are officially investigating the department. Authorities have requested information on several […]

The St. Louis police secretly settled dozens of cases. Many of those cases have not been reviewed for possible criminal charges.

Darius Pinex's family and Chicago reached an agreement to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. The first trial led to a probe of the city's Law Department.

The manslaughter conviction of a Brooklyn woman was overturned Tuesday after the borough’s district attorney’s office investigating the crooked ex-NYPD cop behind her arrest saw issues with the case. Vanessa Gathers has been free from prison since 2007 but the conviction that once marred her record has been removed, according to CBS New York. Gathers, 58, […]

Former Los Angeles County Lee Baca faces six months in prison after pleading guilty to a single felony charge of lying to investigators. Baca, 73, told investigators that he wasn’t aware that his deputies planned to harass a female FBI agent in 2011 who was looking into whispers of civil rights violations and corruption inside […]

Protesters say the firing of Garry McCarthy does not go far enough to address corruption in the city.

Roland Martin talks about the Associated Press’ report about over 1,000 police officers that have committed sexual misconduct in the last six years. He talks to…

Brian Bentley, 49, doesn’t agree with what Christopher Dorner — the ex-cop at center of a massive manhunt for the killings of three people—has done, but he certainly understands it. As a former LAPD officer, Bentley, who is now an author, says that a Dorner-like situation was just a matter of time. “It took longer than I […]

As police scoured mountain peaks for days, using everything from bloodhounds to high-tech helicopters, the revenge-seeking ex-cop they wanted was hiding among them, holed up in a vacation cabin across the street from their command post. It was there that Christopher Dorner apparently took refuge last Thursday, four days after beginning a deadly rampage that […]

Accused cop-killer Christopher Dorner posted an 11,000 word manifesto explaining the actions he was about to undertake. We’re posting it here, in full and uncensored, for you to possibly gain some insight as to what set this off. To: America Subj: Last resort Regarding CF# 07-004281 I know most of you who personally know me […]

A video has been circulating of police officers in Utica, New York allegedly planting evidence in an African American couple’s car. Utica police have denied that police were planting evidence in the car and claim that another part of the video shows the officer taking a bag from the man. WKTV reports: “Obviously it’s a […]

Questions about the NYPD’s abilty to police itself are being raised after a host of criminal  incidents involving city officers were uncovered by outside agencies rather than the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, the New York Times reports. See also: NYPD Officers Should Be Fired For Shooting Death Of Sean Bell See also: Harry Belafonte & […]